Tag: EQ

Ah, Anguish. The early part of my weekend was spent completing this zone as my enchanter, duoing with Oger, a shadowknight. We were there for a few reasons but top of that list was to obtain some orbs for the epic 2.0 that I hoped my paladin would eventually get. I boxed my ranger along for the ride, she also needed an orb. When the names fell I swapped out for the paladin to get loot. The gear was a huge upgrade over what I was wearing, and I was pretty excited about the whole ordeal. I was also pleased as punch that we managed to solo the final two named in the zone, we’re not raid geared at all and mercenary are not allowed – but the hardest part is that these mobs can deathtouch unless you cure. Thankfully my weak ranger cure was enough to take care of it.

The paladin also managed to earn her first 100 aa (slightly over, now) with Oger and my ranger in Bloodfields. It was a lot of fun, and I’m happily riding around on my new instant cast unicorn mount.

Later on in the evening we decided it was time to tackle the Paladin epic chains. I wanted to start with 1.0 and do them in order, but I quickly ran into issues. I need to complete Ghoulbane, not a problem. Also need to complete Soulfire. Not a huge issue. I need a handful of named mobs – I’m currently waiting on the thought destroyer in plane of hate. I was going to skip the 1.0 for now and begin the 1.5 pre-quest however that quest needs the Hand of Maestro almost at the beginning, and he wasn’t up when I was there yesterday. Either way, I have a lot of camping ahead of me. Thankfully I have both parts of the book of scale already, so I don’t need to camp any dragons. I’m also looking to start the epic quests on my ranger, but I’d really like to finish the paladin first. We’ll see how it goes.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Yesterday thanks to the help of Oger I managed to get the last few plushie I needed for my collection. At the moment these doll chests drop from mobs but you can also purchase them from the SC store. There is an achievement associated with them. I thankfully did not have to purchase a single one, I got more than enough drops as I quested. Once you have 9 different ones, a 10th unlocks, the Queen Plushie that’s on the far left hand side. Sadly I can’t display them on my lawn like I had wanted because they count as “pets” and each house can only have a small number of them outside, but they fit inside in a spare room easily enough.

The rest of my evening was spent doing a raid that I had never explored before. It was really quite fun! Oger, Nonpoint, Elte, and myself (along with a boxed character or two) made our way to Natimbi and then eventually to Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver. The zone drops some very neat class specific items, my paladin managed to get a new shield as well as the 2h weapon. My bard also got a 1h weapon, and nonpoint got his druid a weapon. I picked up all of the books in the zone (there are 14 total) and managed to get the achievement for The Fourteen Great Adventurers. I also picked up two of the hardest tongues to get for the Assistant Researcher’s Symbol as well as a component for BiC which is something I’d like to start sooner or later. Probably later, when I have more room in my bank to store all of the bits and pieces required for this quest.

I’m having a lot of fun going through older content now that I’m level 100 on my main character. Working through achievements to zones I haven’t seen in ages is something that I find quite relaxing.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Yesterday I decided I would try to get the paladin to level 70 – this lets me group up with level 100 characters, the current cap in game. I started out in The Undershore and then at 65 I moved over to Wall of Slaughter. There was the usual group of afk-levelers hanging out with their mercenary but aside from that the zone was relatively quiet. I boxed the paladin and the ranger together, along with the rangers J5 tank mercenary. There were two deaths when I got a bit too adventurous but for the most part it all went very well.

I also took down a raid mob that was in the zone that I didn’t realize was actually a raid mob until I started fighting it and noticed that the mob was dying very slowly (and my mercenary was dying not so slowly). I used the ranger emergency skills and managed to kill it before I wiped, yay. Sadly the mob is used for nothing more than someone else’ epic, so it wasn’t of any use to me but since I had pulled it by mistake to begin with I wasn’t that heartbroken.

This morning has been spent gearing the paladin up in defiant gear, the level 70-80 gear is incredibly cheap which is always a nice thing when you have as many alts as I do. I also went and purchased her spells and am now ready to brave Norrath once more. I have her set to 100% aa for the time being so I can try to catch up. Even at 70 there are a LOT of achievements I need. I’ll probably team up with Oger and do lower level zones that still grant him aa so that we can both benefit.

One of the best parts of being level 70 now aside from being able to group with a level 100 character is the fact that I qualify for the MGB buffs that get cast in the guild lobby (I believe 65 is the actual level you need to qualify). Sitting there for a little bit of time means when I go out exploring I am all ready. Still undecided as to whether or not I’ll work on crafting with the paladin, but I’m tickled with the progress so far.

The new hotzone for level 60 is The Undershore, an easy zone to access with a lot of different factions that you don’t typically want to mess up. Thankfully with Oger’s help we found the ones that are OK to kill, and we headed out that way to lay waste to the general population. The paladin is now level 63, and can group with my 89 ranger although she can’t earn aa with the paladin unless the mobs also grant the ranger experience. Still, it’s nice to be into a comfortable level range. Ideally I’ll stay in the 70 range for a while and just work on alternate advancement for some time. We’ll see how that goes.

I still haven’t managed to find Nagafan up, but I did kill Talendor yesterday – unfortunately he did not drop the book I need for the epic 1.0 but I’ll keep trying. Eventually I’m bound to luck out and get the drop.

I haven’t purchased my spells for the past 10 levels so that’s the goal for today. I’m also debating whether or not I want to do any crafting on the paladin. Now that my 100 enchanter has 300 in each craft, maybe it’s time to work on another character? The ranger could stand to have a few crafts leveled up as well, fletching in specific. We’ll see how that goes.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Yesterday while leveling up my paladin I started thinking about my 1.0 epic. At first glance I thought it may be too difficult, it used to require both Nagafan and Vox as kills. However, players now have two extra dragon options with each of those drops. You CAN kill Nagafan and Vox, or you can kill Talendor, Severilous, Faydedar or Gorenaire. It just so happened that when Oger went and checked on Vox, she was up! I shrouded my ranger down to level 50, and her and my 49 paladin made our way to Permafrost and slowly towards Vox’s lair.

Of course first we accidentally pulled her along with a bunch of giants that started chain healing themselves. The fight took a very long time, and in the end both Oger (who was shrouded down) and Pumpkins (my shrouded ranger) died, while Dyathe (my paladin) and the three mercenary lived long enough to put the finishing blow on the ice dragon.

I got my drop easily enough, along with a white dragon scale to sell, a cleric only 2hb and a bracelet. I was very happy. My paladin may be low level, but I would really like to complete her 1.0 (and then her 1.5 and her 2.0). Because lately I have been boxing the account along with my main account, I decided to re-subscribe her using a krono I purchased from the bazaar. I had let the account lapse last month thinking that I was no longer interested in boxing and that I may switch over to another game (ie: Rift). Sadly, or perhaps not so sadly, nothing else seems to be holding my attention these days like EverQuest does. I have no regrets about signing the second account back up, and I’ll probably continue to pay for the account via krono for as long as I can.

The paladin is now level 52, and I’m debating whether or not I want to continue working on her epic or go back to leveling and working on alternate advancement. This character will probably level slower than my others, as I would like (for once) to keep up with her alternate advancement so that she’s not a completely useless character. We’ll see how that goes. In the meantime, it’s really nice to have the ranger back.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!